Women Who Take Care: Choosing to Live With Wisdom, Grace, and Power After Fifty-Five [Paperback]

Lou Dunn Diekemper (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 157733003X | ISBN-13: 978-1577330035 | Publication Date: October 15, 1997

Lou Dunn Diekemper wanted to know how elder women feel about themselves in a youth-oriented culture. She wanted to know their views about aging, death, loss, life's enriching experiences, and their feelings about the importance of their lives.

So she embarked upon asking such questions of women across the United States. Now she presents the results of her study in a very clear, upbeat, and beautifully evocative outline of the role of the elder woman in American society and includes the results of her interviews and surveys of over 250 women, ages 55 and older, regarding their health, outlook, attitudes, beliefs, accomplishments, self-esteem, and self-views.

"Women Who Take Care" emphasizes the increasing possibilities that are open to elder women, explores the critical issues facing aging women and their self-view in terms of body, mind, and spirit, and encourages women to make active and creative choices for their lives as they come "of age."

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

"Lou Diekemper walks the top. She personifies wisdom, grace, and power. For those who wish a blueprint to accomplish optimal expression of aging wisely, they will find it in 'Women Who Take Care.'" (C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., Shealy Institute for Comprehensive Health Care)

"I have known Lou Diekemper for over fifteen years as a gifted healer, a spiritual explorer, a wife and mother, a businesswoman, and a stalwart supporter of worthy causes. She is the embodiment of what she writes. Her work is authentic and highly recommended as a guiding light for those of us who are entering the autumn and winter of our lives." (Jeffrey Mishlove, president, Intuition Network; host, "Thinking Allowed," national public television series)

About the Author

Lou Dunn Diekemper believes that learning is a lifetime process. She received her master's degree when she was in her fifties and her doctoral degree in her sixties. She has a very long list of lifetime accomplishments--most of them involving service to her community. She owns The Odyssey Bookstore in Lubbock, Texas, and gives workshops on a variety of topics such as: "Holistic Concepts of Stress Management," "The Possible Woman," and "Aging Gratefully and Gracefully." She is also a founding member of the South Plains Food Bank.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Blue Dolphin Pub (October 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 157733003X
• ISBN-13: 978-1577330035
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,033,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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